No miracle of oil for cooking contestants
WHAT'S the difference between $100,000 and $0? According to the Jewish runners-up in TV cooking competition My Kitchen Rules, it's two millilitres of olive oil.
ZEDDY LAWRENCE
WHAT’S the difference between $100,000 and $0? According to the Jewish runners-up in TV cooking competition My Kitchen Rules, it’s two millilitres of olive oil.
Earlier this week, over 1.5 million viewers tuned in to the Channel 7 show’s grand final to watch Victoria’s Clint Yudelman and Noah Rose take on Queensland’s Veronica and Shadi Abraham in a three-course cook off.
But ultimately the amateur chefs from Melbourne lost out, failing to impress the professional judges with their carpaccio of tuna, roasted duck breast and tart of hazelnut and raspberry.
“I think it came down to our entree and the carpaccio,”¬† mused Yudelman, 24, on Tuesday. “I think we had about two millilitres too little of olive oil or lemon juice dressing, so I think the difference between $100,000 and zero dollars was just a few millilitres of olive oil. There’s no prize for coming second.”
The final itself was actually filmed last December, but the pair have had to keep the result a secret, which hasn’t helped them get over the disappointment.
“It’s been burning from the inside,” said the former Mount Scopus Memorial College student, who confessed to being “heartbroken” when he found out they’d lost.
Not that it was all bad.
While accepting that “the best team on the night won ‚Ķ we didn’t produce the dishes to the best of our ability,” former Bialik College student Rose added: “It was an absolutely fantastic experience, we loved every minute of it.”
And despite the setback, Yudleman, a qualified vet, admitted: “We fast tracked our knowledge and experience in the kitchen dramatically. It was like doing an apprenticeship under Pete [Evans] and Manu [Feildel].”
So have the lessons they learnt from those two chefs inspired the pair, to change careers and turn professional?
“Down the track maybe,” said property development student Rose. “But in the immediate future we’re not going to open a restaurant or cafe because we don’t have enough experience and we have a particular taste and we want to expand that and evolve.”
There’s no let up in the demand for their culinary expertise, though. With Pesach just around the corner, Rose has been told he has to cook fish for 40 people for first night seder. “They’re expecting big things,” he said.
Forget Pete Evans and Manu Feildel judging you. A room full of hungry Jews. Now that really is pressure.
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